Apron.



'PATENTED SEPT. 1, 1908.

C. W. BARTRUM.

APRON.

APPLICATION FILED APB. 11,1905.

ltornqv GHARLES W. BARTRUM, OF

NEWBURGH, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR TO SWEET, ORR & COMPANY, OF NEWBURGH, NEW YORK, A FIRM.

APRON.

Specificationof Letters Patent.

Application filed April 17, 1905.

Patented Sept. 1, 1908.

Serial No. 256,072.

To all whom it maglconcern:

Be it known t at I, CHARLES W. BAR- TnUM, a citizen of the United States, residing at Newburgh, in the county of Orange and State of New York, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Aprons, of

' which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

Operating surgeons wear over their ordinary garments a suit of some sort for protection, and where the operation to be performed is likely to involve a considerable qliliantity of fluid, it is usual to wear between t e suit and the over-garment a rubber or other impervious apron in a solid piece, more or less clumsy and ill-fitting.

The primary object of the present invention is to provide a surgeons operating a ron fitting to the form, easily applied an removed, and leaving to the limbs and body perfect freedom of movement.

The invention consists of an apron, of cloth, or impervious or waterproof material,

,having legs, a front bib, an open back, and

back-ties, constructed and arranged as hereinafter set forth and claimed, so that the wearer ma readily slip it on and adjust it nicely to tie person, and have perfect freedom of movement and as readily sli it off.

In the accompanying drawings il ustrating the invention, in the several figures of which like parts are similarly designated, Figure. 1 is a perspective or threequarters view. Fig. 2 is a top plan or rear perspective, the legs broken away. Fig. 3 1s a diagram of the pattern.

A iece of suitable implervious or waterproo material is cut to t e shape shown in ig. 3, with a lower portion 1, two forkomts 2 and 3, rear slope 4 extending to the ork-point 3 and upper portion 5, whose front edge 6 extends to the front fork-point 2. This piece is folded upon itself and its edges 7 and 8 seamed up to the forkoints to form a le 9, Figs. 1 and 2, with t e forkpoints in ont, and the seam on the inside of the leg. Another similar piece is similarly pre ared, and these two are united along their fork-points to close in the front crotch, and are also united alo their front edges 6 to form the bib 10, whic slopes away rearwardly over the hips at 11, and is open behind, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2. This open rear portion extends the full width of the garment and from the crotch upward. In order to adjust the garment to the person, tie cords 12 are fixed at the waist line, and tied behind, and in order to support the bib it may be provided with a neck-loop 13. As shown in Fig. 2, the tie cords 12 are detachably secured in worked eyelet holes 14 at the tops of the slopes 4, and, further, there are no buttons or buttonholes emplo ed in the garment, and these features resu t respectively in enabling the wearer to cause the forkpoints to conform to the person, and effect an economy in materials, labor and in laundering. By means of the front fork-points the garment is shaped to the crotch and thus the garment is made to conform to the wearers clothed person and fully protects his clothing from being fouled, and at the same time the wearers limbs and body at the hi s have perfect freedom of movement. As a ready sufficiently indicated, the apron may be slipped over the outer garments, and over it may be applied the operating suit if desired.

I am aware that overalls composed of leg portions and a bib have been proposed, and also a combined apron and overal s has been devised, the latter being secured by straps and buttons, but I am not aware that prior to my invention it has been proposed to make an apron of com lete leg-sections and a bib, shaped to fit to t e person and adapted to be adjusted about the Waist, so as to protect the persons clothing from fluids.

While m invention, as already stated, is primarily esigned for a surgeons use, it is not limited thereto, since it is equally useful where it is desired to protect the clothing from fouling by one s occu ation, and at the same time permit perfect reedom of movement in a garment fitting to the person in 'front and 0 en and free in the rear.

What I c aim is An apron, comprising essentiall two pieces, each composed of the integra lower ortion 1, havi the two fork-points 2 and 3 l; means of which the garment is shaped to t e crotch and made to conform to the wearers person, the rear slope 4 extending from the waist line to the fork-point 3 and supplied with rear ties, and the upper portion 5, these two pieces united substantially as shown and formin legs 9 and a bib 10, andopen behind the fulfwidth from crotch u ward, whereby the a ron is accurately fitters 5 son, ully protects the wearer in front, and being open in the rear allows perfect freedom of movement of the person.

about the per- In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand this 14th day of April A. D. 1905. I CHARLES W. BARTRUM. Witnesses:

J. H. ROY, W. J. GIDLEY. 

